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Following the Welsh Government’s agreeing a license for the dumping of 300,000 tonnes of mud from Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station in Cardiff's inshore waters, the Plaid Cymru Group on Cardiff Council have tabled a motion (Thursday, 25 January) demanding independent and rigorous testing be donefirst.

It was revealed at the Petitions Committee of the National Assembly for Wales in January that Natural Resources Wales and the Welsh Government have already granted a license for the dumping to go ahead in June.

Leader of the Cardiff Council Plaid Cymru Group, Cllr. Neil McEvoy AM said, “I was shocked to have it confirmed at the Assembly Petitions Committee that there has been no analysis of the radioactive dose that the mud below 5cm may or may not contain, even though the potential total dose is the most important thing.

ROATH RESIDENTS STAND BY THEIR TREES

Roath Brook Community will carry on protesting the felling of scores of mature trees in Roath Brook and Roath Mill Gardens (Cardiff) by Natural Resources Wales (NRW).

Neil McEvoy AM (Assembly Member for South Wales Central)after meeting again with the residents’ group, said that following a resumption of protest actions (at 8.00 a.m.on Monday January 8th) the Minister has agreed to meet the campaigners (January 9th).

Cardiff Council’s controversial plans for Cardiff’s bus station have been ‘called in’ by Neil McEvoy, the Leader of the Plaid Group on Cardiff Council.

The call in means that a special committee will meet on the 13th of September to scrutinise the latest plans that could see grade A office space and homes replaced with student flats.

The bus station scheme put forward by the Labour Council has been struggling for months. In March this year, Cardiff Council’s handling of the funding for the project was described as a ‘masterclass in incompetence’ by Media Wales’ Chief Reporter. This was after it emerged no funding package had been put in place to build the bus station more than 18 months after the old bus station had been demolished.

The Plaid Cymru group on Cardiff Council has successfully ‘called in’ the Labour Council’s decision to turn the Waungron Road recycling centre site into a bus interchange.

The decision has now been quashed by a special scrutiny committee, stopping the plans from going ahead for the time being. The Labour Cabinet will now have to vote again to start the process if they want to proceed.